The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization Hardcover - 1993
by Alan L. Kolata
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The city of Tiwanaku lies ruined in the rugged Andean steppe of Bolivia twelve thousand feet above sea level, the highest urban settlement of the ancient world. Its wide streets open towards ramparts of glaciated mountain peaks and the intense blue waters of Lake Titicaca. Gigantic stone sculptures and shattered architectural blocks suggest profound antiquity and the passage of great events, now lost and unremembered. Here, two and a half thousand years ago, a distinct society emerged which over the course of thirteen centuries developed one of the greatest civilizations and the first empire of the ancient Americas. This book, the first published history of the Tiwanakan peoples from their origins to their present survival, is a feat of scholarly and archaeological detection undertaken and led by the author.
Alan Kolata draws together the evidence of historical documents from the time of the Iberian conquest, accounts and legends of the contemporary inhabitants, and the results of extensive excavations in order to provide a narrative covering three thousand years. In doing so he addresses and explains features of Tiwanakan culture that have long puzzled scholars: the origins of their uniquely massive architecture, the nature of their sophisticated hydraulically-engineered agriculture, their obsession with decapitation and the display of severed heads, and not least the reasons for their mysterious and sudden decline at the end of the tenth century.
The book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, and is fully referenced and indexed. Although written to appeal to the nonspecialist and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is a book of scholarly import, and likely to become the standard work for many years.
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- Title The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization
- Author Alan L. Kolata
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Cambridge, MA
- Date 1993-12-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781557861832 / 1557861838
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.26 x 0.99 in (24.03 x 15.90 x 2.51 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of South America - Andes Region -, Indians of South America - Andes Region -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92039248
- Dewey Decimal Code 984.12
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